Project Instructions

Math 135 - Sample Survey Topics

● Systematic Sample: Contact every fourth person who posted a response on your facebook wall during a specific time range to ask them questions about their use of social media.

● Cluster Sample: Mark 25 square blocks on a map of your neighborhood’s boundaries then interview every household living in two of the squares to ask them questions about their opinions regarding homeowners association.

● Stratified Sample: In a wild horse herd that is 80% females and 20% male, randomly select a small group of them to study but make sure that the sample has no more than 20% males to learn about the characteristics of the herd by finding information about every horse in the sample.

● Random Sample: You are curious about the types of emails you received during the summer in your email account. You number every email received and use a random number generator to select a sample of 30 emails to review and collect data about the types of emails you typically receive.

Examples of Qualitative Questions:

● For which social media platforms do you have accounts? ● What type of role do you play in our homeowners association (president,

secretary, active participant who attends all meetings, semi-active participant who attends at least half of the meetings, concerned member who reads the meeting notes but does not attend the meetings, or I don’t participate at all)

● What is your biggest concern that you would like to see the homeowners association address?

● What types of horses are in the herd? ● What is the purpose of the email?

Examples of Quantitative Questions:

● How many times a day to you check social media sites? ● How many hours a week do you put into the homeowners association? ● How long have you lived in this homeowners association (in years)? ● What is the age of the horse? ● How long (in words) is the email? ● How many hours before I replied to the email?

Examples of Question to use on a Scatter Diagram

● Compare the number of hours put into the homeowners association to the number of years lived in the association to see if there is a relationship

● Compare the length of the email to the number of hours before a reply was sent to see if there is a relationship between length and time for a reply